A man heads into the ocean. If he waits long enough it might come and fetch him a sea levels are rising. But salmon who are drowning wont despair he loves the island that is his home and hes prepared to fight for it. This spot is where kids used to play volleyball until a few years ago when the beach vanished this is what Climate Change is the expected to bring to many Pacific Island nations the stakes are high. But said you know weve lived here for years you know i insist that movie and we dont want to be relocated to Climate Change and the so what we would wish them to go to paul do you stand up change. It was. One to. Travel between Pacific Island countries cover some enormous distances the first leg of our journey takes two days and four stop all of us. From tokyo to guam then to choke and pompei to kwajalein and from there to model capital of the Marshall Islands. Some of the atolls that make up the country are only a few metres wide with the highest elevation of two meters above sea levels here halfway between australia and hawaii impoverished islands are struggling to cope with rising sea levels and paradoxically with water scarcity in bottles canisters of gallon jugs carrying water in the marshals in the middle of the worlds biggest ocean is hard and necessary work. Ok emilies here they have their own tap water so they use it as an alternative but sometimes one that runs out they have to buy bottled water to build ingres water or you. Could if there were a lot of the real world. But there is no true other reason or Drinking Water people get sick. Something is severely out of whack in the pacific spring tides floods the islands that used to be the exception now its become the rules. Sea water fills the wells and Drinking Water become scarce and droughts are becoming more frequent and lasting longer than in the past the marshall east government has declared a state of emergency several times because when water sources dry up Water Quality declines and infections can spread people here traditionally collect rainwater every home is equipped with a balloon as rain barrel for didnt live it took us tap water is a luxury he gets most of his water from a well in his garden and collect some hoards what falls from the sky there are only one hour we only get tap water at certain times and then we have to fill up the tanks first. But theres always salt water. Is washing machine toilets and shower or use rainwater. Elden son lucas is a good climber he keeps the roof got to clear the government would like every household to have three water tags but most people cant afford that. I like the reality and i help out as much as i can and we will i dont mind if my neighbors take some of it lots of people here have no Drinking Water some of them they dont even have a tank that its hard for them are you really cant you keep killing the islands have many problems from the air they may look like paradise but on the ground the need is plain to see the lagoon water is dirty and the highest elevation in the marshals is a waste dump. Piled up here other residues of the western world under whose influence the atolls have been for years through colonialism and war. The republic of the Marshall Islands is a developing country among other problems the prevalence of leprosy there is one of the highest in the world about a third of inhabitants have already left not fleeing Climate Change yet but poverty and the lack of prospects most of this exodus involves young people and most of them go to the united states. One of the main sources of revenue is the granting of fisheries licenses to foreign vessels but that also takes precious resources abroad. Coconut Oil Production makes more pollution than money but this factory is harder responsible for global warming. Thats being tracked by the Weather Service in module with the friendly support of the u. S. With the vast reaches of the pacific stretched digitally before him meteorologist Reginald White can recall carefree times there diving and fishing but those days are over the road for the last twenty years weve had to deal with a lot of sea water in and the and devastation tours our shores as well as several incidents reaching where you see all whites where you normally go and fish and look for. Shellfish. Is this deep in the muscles or is it the last alms of the titanic. The popular lure of beach shows what coastal flooding does here theres not much of it left just the trees eroded by the salt water. When i first came here i think those three big trees and raise. Maybe fifty feet from that bank they saw in the bank is some maybe somewhere here maybe fifty feet. Perspective visitors to lower beach should come soon. While its still here. Not only the ocean poses a threat so does the weather its a life between extremes sometimes people are in water up to the next then theres no rain for months as happened a few years ago in the northern nut holds the Us Desalination plants. I am. Here even the countrys president has to get out of the rain its the annual culture day holiday in the Marshall Islands. Hilda is determined to stand up to Climate Change and refuses to sink into resignation. I am. Well and i think its easy to be hopeless and i dont think we can afford to be hopeless sleep over night you know at night time thinking about the threat of Climate Change and more of a positive person things like if we can do it lets work on it. Hina has built her own home next to the water and she shares the concerns of all her fellow citizens. Her provisional retaining wall has collapsed twice already what can she do leave the marshals and become a Climate Change refugee. For the needy its not an option for strategy. As much as possible with sand replenishment and land reclamation. Its a colossal task and further out rising sea levels are real wakening and old has a sequel to this. Trading a legacy of u. S. Uclear testing. We expect them to clean it out we expect them to phase it off so that people from the alencon of you know units and people can of just walk in there and get you know contaminated. Anywhere talk at all its three hours flight from the capital. President hina was talking about a normal forgotten relic of the explosive nuclear past. This part of the pacific is steeped in history its mute witnesses are everywhere here. And. Anywhere talk wrong galop butyric bikini these are tolls were ground zero for us atomic weapons tests the islanders were evacuated from their homes and off the cleanup work the americans left to they placed radioactive soil and debris ninety thousand tons of atomic waste under a huge concrete dome on room its island but the provisional shelter is deteriorating and the water is seeping into the bottom of it. Climate change is reopening old wounds. Do you hate the americans. While i was it was i dont. I dont wonder we need somebody with. Anger and disappointment a thousand kilometers from her home. A bone sought refuge in multiple she had lived in rounded up the bomb took away her island and the friends and relatives who died of radiation poisoning her thyroid gland was removed due to cancer. It just restated this but when the baby came out some. Babies. Some craves. And some wonder we can just see it through their brain. Theyre going to wonder why in a particular on the morning of the first of march nine hundred fifty four the u. S. Detonated costal bravo its most powerful Thermo Nuclear bomb at bikini atoll wrong lap one hundred fifty kilometers away saw two suns that day. Radioactive fallout rained down there in the afternoon children played in it unaware. Feet accusation began three days later too late like many others mayo a bone underwent regular medical checks in the wake of the test many children were born with six fingers and six toes. Bill graham came to the Marshall Islands with the us peace corps in the one nine hundred sixty s. And stayed over the decades he helped the victims make compensation claims against the Us Government the way america dealt with the calm time a nation changed his attitude towards his native country. I can accept that there was any conscious intent to expose the people however once the exposure had occurred then i think the human experimentation began with the decision lets move the people back to their at all after only a three month period of evacuation. I would say is clearly a crime. How could anyone argue that its not a crime against humanity when you subject people to that level of of exposure ongoing and risk. Graham says the u. S. Has chosen to ignore this chapter of its history and has never faced up to its responsibility. Thats been far too little compensation and no apologies for this radioactive to the room it dont is the resting place for the debris and soil from forty three tests but the sarcophagus is not adequately sealed beneath it tony amuse leaking out and the cover is crumbling. The temporary structure even contains unexploded nuclear ordinances theyre buried under concrete slabs the dome was only completed in this form in the one nine hundred eighty s. The waste that didnt fit was shuffled into the reef. To me its an embarrassing symbol of the the manner in which the u. S. Came in here conducted these Nuclear Weapons tests created all this radioactive debris and then tried to just sweep it up and push it under the rug. Internally displaced people there are many of them in the Marshall Islands the tiny island called age it became provisional home to the homeless exiles from bikini. Ninety three year old joy ash had to move five times because of the bomb tests her grandson allison kalen is often at her side since she was twenty nine year old joy she has had one overriding wish but alson cant grant it now though the americans told us to leave bikini when. We said we want to go back thats all. But going on and im when you tell it i want to go home this place is not right you know you. All in the name of pieces of us said at the time today age it is an overpopulated dismal spot of land bikini remains a distant dream. The u. S. Flag upside down a signal of distress for an uprooted exhausted people. I had america has destroyed our culture. All our problems come from america the usa destroyed my life many. Was there theres. A first the radiation now Climate Change but this time no one here expects help to come. We have liberty and justice for all when its my only worry when he said she stays out the american people. Are born cant begin to imagine what it would be like if the rising ocean forces her and her family to relocate again. But. I dont know what. The right in them. What causes the climate is already. So i will not stop them i dont know i like it even. The worst even a money money will stay and i. Died soon after she said those words she was followed not long after by bill graham two major eye witnesses and defenders of human rights the marshallese will miss them. The fate of the sarcophagus that symbol of the two fold curse facing the peoples of the pacific is still unknown. In the southern Marshall Islands people try not to worry about it its so far away and who knows what tomorrow may bring but today work to scarcity is the most pressing problem. To help in case of drought to storms the want you to the team andro maintains a rainwater reservoir of nearly one hundred forty million liters thats gigantic for a natural but who will actually use the reserve if only one ounce of food people can afford tap water. To do it like john menadue plan in place in case another drug does come to measure. But we can only plan so much if its really really long yes well need external assistance from our apartment. Then the us will have to help again with plastic bottles and seawater desalination units but until that day comes well continue to save its valuable rainwater and most of it is collected from the runway of the nearby airport. It has a new retaining wall of the sea front once the runway was completely inundated and that fate now threatens the entire archie peleg oh at least according to for costs by the turn of the next century. We mete out some kale in the grandson of the elderly lady from age it if anyone knows how to stay above water then he does. House and still knows how to build the traditional outrigger canoe and he can navigate them without technical aids we ride in a motor boat alongside he has sailed four thousand kilometers home from hawaii with only the stars wind and waves to guide him but the news this hour are the backbone of our culture and our tradition is the first school for the march meet you need to thank you jeanne. Transport within one hour also to transport goods to and out. So it is the best tool for sustainable livelihood. But the canoe is not just a means of transportation it creates identity and anyone who can build one has a skill that can earn money with this project alson kaylin the coworkers give young dropouts a chance at a future they also learn how to make the traditional stick charts of the ancient marshallese marah dance. Moves or at least i dont know they looking piece can move in. And out on if i really want the outrage to travel. Long if at a time when the Pacific Islanders are facing rough weather even a wood model can help make people more resilient even to rock and slike the ancestors. And id like to have a family and be a carpenter on a. Building boats boosts confidence these people may become homeless but theyre not without hope you know it the saddest thing is nine hundred forty six a lot of our people in the marshes god we look at it from their islands. Two thousand forty six we probably will be relocated from this country so we will be known but we have a vessel if something ever happened we have the best we have something that we can sail out into the garage first. Three thousand kilometers to the southeast b. G. Palms sun and friendly fiji and complete the image of the perfect vacation spot. But these volcanic islands are fighting the same monsters that haunt the other Pacific Islands declining fish and hatches devastating typhoons eroding coastlines. Can planting mangroves help now much cooler is a small village on the sea the people here had almost capitulated to the forces of nature until a young man in his twentys got involved today somewhere a corridor army heads a village brigade. In the money out of a bit of it is it inevitable in a bit of a political level but today were planting palms he tells the man he wants our t. V. Team from germany to show people in europe what effects Climate Change is having here. Corey johnny has founded an environmental Aid Organization its name is kindly called meaning tree of life. And theres lots to do the water has sucked up twenty meters of beach in the past five years a few steps further along the shore its even broken through now a stream of soup water occasionally flows through the village. The delicate seedlings of Coastal Protection but theres only so much such measures can achieve land is sacred to the island as but will there be any left for coming generations you know theres a community in fiji that was relocated for Climate Change and we dont want to do that so what we want to do is be a pilot village think e. G. To actually have an angel and advocate for Climate Change and other issues that affect us. Recognizes that Climate Change is a health risk its turned itself into a greenhouse for more resilience and Food Security and to combat poverty. A holistic green plan for a Model Village which has the first minister paul compost heap foreign wine. There was a farm has been damaged you know from continuous events of you know side clones and stuff so its sort of bring it closer to us you know at the same time youre promoting Healthy Living and you know it makes the place look beautiful with all the trees and flowers in it all the fruits and crops around the house are. Thinking ecologically has called home the school on the other side of the street is taking part in the village gardening project. That i love but this is far from paradise that the foundations of every house make it clear what a struggle for existence is taking place here. The window because something our whole village is threatened but we dont want to leave. When im old my husband is dead when the waves come and destroy our house who will help us. Here. This is the Operation CenterPlanning Office and Community Center the village of no matter cooler is working. To ensure its future everyone contributes something on a volunteer basis. A lot has changed here we Work Together now to do something against Climate Change or Aid Organization is our voice but we can achieve something. And. Normally were not in the tree of life the young people are keen to whether it takes root or not somewhere that could redraw me says hes ready for the challenge. The new label is fijis second largest island. Here the sea has already won the contest this was once a spit of land. But every defeat can also mean a new beginning. We head to. A settlement that was forced away from the coast it relocated to a hillside two kilometers inland. Thirty two prefab houses for one hundred thirty two residents the move was completed in twenty fourteen it was a way of adapting to the realities of coastal erosion. Village chief silo ciro mountain says its unfair that the village has had to shoulder with third of the relocation costs but he praises the new site. We really love this new site because who you away from the. Person